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PUBLIC LAW 6 3 3 - J U N E 29, 1956

In the construction of any Government-owned industrial facilities, in the rendition of any Government financial assistance for the construction, expansion, or improvement of any industrial facilities, and in the procurement of g^oods and services, under this or any other Act, each department and agency of the Executive Branch shall apply, under the coordination of the OiRce of Defense Mobilization, when practicable and consistent with existing law and the desirability for maintaining a sound economy, the principle of the geographical dispersal of such facilities in the interest of national defense. Nothing contained in this paragraph shall preclude the use of existing industrial facilities."' SEC. 5. Effective July 1, 1956, section 712(e) of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "(e) The expenses of the committee under this section, which shall not exceed $65,000 in any fiscal year, shall be paid from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives upon vouchers signed by the Chairman or Vice Chairman." Approved June 29, 1956.

P u b l i c Law 633

50 U S C 2162.

CHAPTER 475

AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an additional contract with the Yuma County Water Users' Association with respect to payment of construction charges on the Valley division, Yuma reclamation project, Arizona, and for other purposes.

June 29, 1956 [S.2202]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary ^^"6" us^ers^'yvsof the Interior, hereinafter in this Act referred to as the Secretary, is sociauon, Ariz, hereby authorized to enter into a contract with the Yuma County Water Contract. Users* Association, an Arizona corporation providing for the collection and retention by the association of all construction charge payments made subsequent to the date of such contract under water-right applications on the Valley division of the Yuma reclamation project outstanding on the date of said contract and water-right applications thereafter approved on said division and the release of the association from its guaranty to the United States of all amounts then due or thereafter to become due on said applications in consideration of the assumption by the association of the general repayment obligation defined in section 2 hereof payable to the United States without interest in annual installments not smaller than the aggregate of the payments which, in the opinion of the Secretary, would have become due pursuant to the provisions of said water-right applications. SEC. 2. The general repayment obligation payable under the contract B a s i s for repay authorized by section 1 of this Act shall be ascertained by the Secretary (a) by adding to $165,605.46 any operation and maintenance costs incurred on or after January 1, 1955, which are unpaid on the date of the contract, (b) by subtracting from the sum thereof (i) any payments under water-right applications heretofore or hereafter approved by the Secretary on the Valley division which have become due and payable and which have been received beginning with January 1, 1955, and prior to the date of the contract, and (ii) net profits earned on or after January 1, 1955, and prior to June 30 preceding the date of the contract which are determined by the Secretary to be properly allocable to the Valley division, all as provided in section 3 of this Act, and (c) by adjusting the difference between (a) and (b) to Southern Pacific reflect an appropriate share, as determined by the Secretary, of any Ry. trestle.

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